Parashat Hashavua

Portion VaYayShev : King of Joseph or King of Judah - see the Tel Dan Stele, oldest archaeological evidence of King David, at...

https://worldisraelnews.com/tel-dan-stele-oldest-archaeological-evidence-of-king-david-comes-to-nys-jewish-museum/

It is typical

Aram's king kills jewish kings - descended from Joseph AND King David

Portion VaYayShev : King of Joseph or King of Judah - see address link above the Tel Dan Stele, oldest archaeological evidence of King David

And

The miracles of today - and yesterday.

I woke up to flashes outside - were they rockets? Or lightning. So I prayed for rain.

As per request of the Chief Rabbinate here...

And went outside to the local Shul to start the new Tractate of Talmud - Sanhedrin - HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.

When I left it was raining ... and thundering

Our portion ends with Pharoah judging one minister to hang and another to be exonerated.

But our Talmud is the basis of FAIR JUDGEMENT AND JUSTICE.

Oh what history and what the world doesnt get!

Reb Shlomo said

The fixing is Chanukah

Good Shabbos!

Happy Chanukah

Chanukah lighting begins next Wednesday night December 25

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Portion VaYishLach - Peace of Jacob Peace of Esav

The last few pages of Talmud baba Basra that I have been studying (daily) deal with preventing frauds. (See attached cartoon).

We have also been warned to avoid nations of thieves and nations prone to kiilling.

Dr Moshe wrote this week about

Yakov (Father Jacob) the Ish Tam ...the incorruptible,

Saying,

unfortunately we all have a little "Eisav " in us,

so the Torah tells us here

how Yakov struggled through the long night to defeat Eisav (and his protector angel-tendency)

Jacob comes out victorious for all of us.

And the Almighty changes Jacob's name to

ISRAEL

To teach:

Hang in there. We may have to struggle to teach morality

But

The morning is coming.

What a "middle east" week or two it has been!

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

And here's Reb Shlomo Carlebach (thanks, Stuie)

On Parsha Vayishlach - (very abridged here)

I want to share an unbelievable Torah from the Holy Ziditchover(Reɓe)

Jacob and Esav meet up after 20 years.

Jacob says to his brother:

“If it was just you and me, we could go (on) together.

But it's also my children and your children.

They are not ready, the world isn't ready yet.

Yakov-Jacob- says (in our portion) we arent all together

'Until I come to my Lord, at Mount Se’ir.’”

Yakov promised Esav, “Someday I'll come to your mountain, and we will walk again together.”

Shabbat Shalom (Rabbi Shlomo)

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portion of Vayishlach

Portion vaYetzei : Thank youTMR and James Pfeifer

(And thank you stuei and Dr moshe)

Is James Pfeifer still on this earth?

What a grat guy - a fellow camper at TMR many years ago

I BLESS all the values I imbued as a yeshiva Bochur hobnobing with Jesuits and Catholics who couldn't understand some priests' negative VIEWS of Jews!

Portion "VaYayTzay " meaning "he got out" - ...

And the news tells us Congress has just awarded

Gold Medals to beaurocrats the world over who helped

SAVE JEWS during the Nazi persecutions

Now:

How Many Forefathers of the Jews can you name or relate to?

First A litle current Israeli news:

A first-level technician course for soldiers from

the charedi sector (ultra orthodox)

took place Tuesday at the technical base in Haifa, according to a report by the IDF

The training was led by the head of the Charedi Air Force Manpower Directorate

Also 130 religious women aged 30-50 joined IDF now -

Including social workers amd computer programmers and nurses - stating the need is great because of the war-

and the army accomodating them with

a new religious female Batallion!

And from our Master Teachers...

And as Reb Shlomo taught

“There is a road, no simple highway

Between the dawn and the dark of night”

Reb Shlomo Carlebach on Parsha Vayetze

In MA’ARIV -Evening Prayer

It says

"He encountered the place". (Bereishis 28:11)

Meaning

Ya’akov instituted the evening prayer. (Rashi)

The evening prayer has no set time, rather its time is the whole night.

Avraham Avinu brought the morning prayers down into the world, and in the morning you see a great light shining (because of prayer)

Do you know when you have a (REAL) taste of the day? Just before the day is over, at sunset, you taste the day.

Yitzchak was on the level of taste. When he wanted Esav to prepare him a meal, Yitzchak said, "Prepare for me tastes of food which I like"

But you know friends, the night is something else. Do you know what the night is about?

Fragrance.

When you see a person in the morning, you see their light. When you take a walk with your friends at sunset you taste their souls.

But at night you are connected

to a higher consciousness. And here I need you to open your hearts.

Fragrance has to do with the nose. Do you know what the nose is all about? The Kabbala-

The Zohar Hakadosh says that the nose is connected to the “life of life,” “chayei d’chayim.”

The Gemara says (Yoma 85a) that a person is alive as long as his nose is breathing.

Not his heart, but his nose. The heart is connected to life, but the nose is connected to...

the roots of life, to the roots of my roots!

It says that

God breathed life into man ... into man’s nose.

When you want to take a walk, do you take a walk in the sunlight or do we

take a walk in the moonlight?

When you see someone at night, do you know what you see?

When Ya’akov came in to tell get the blessings from his father, Yitzchak,

it says, (Bereishis 27:27),

Yitzchak SAW the fragrance of his son.

He saw the deepest depths of Ya’akov Avinu.

(Our forefather)

Ya’akov Avinu’s holiness was that he connected us to something deeper -

to the level of the unconscious,

the superconscious, serving of God.

It says about Ya’akov Avinu, “vayifga baMakom” (Bereishis 28:11) - so to speak “grabbed” God.

he touched Him, he Mamash touched God.

Good Shabbos!

And From Dr.Moshe : Va Yay Tzay

Yakov goes out from his comfort zone,

From Beayr Sheva - from the world of Shabbos where everything is provided for

and he has to go to Charon, the world of challenges.

(Where he gets married

)

A Yid has to be publicizing his Yiddishkeit (everywhere)

As Rabbi SHLOMO said the hands are the hands ( even of Jacob they are looking like)

Eisav, but the voice

always stays connected to the highest.

On the outside it may look like I carry a weapon just like the goyim

but the voice reveals that I do so only because of circumstance,

I don’t want to kill anyone, I’m praying for peace, I’m praying for God’s light to shine into everyone.

Chodesh Tov

From Rabbi Andy

Congress finally put out some good news

About saving Jews

And the world may finally value

All the good coming out in Israel

Even in tough times like today

Many BLESSINGS to all

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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Parshat Toldot - and Tikun Hatzot

Prayers connect us all

ׂׂAnd I hope I wrote a correct interpretation of this one

Tikun Hatzot is supposed to be an important prayer
Said at night
TIKUN MEANS REPAIR

One great rabbi told me that this "repair" even fixes problems with contractors who do your renovations!

So I sometimes read this prayer and this morning (around 430 AM) I saw something interesting

We ask the Holy One, blessed be He, to "look from heaven and see ׁ(OUR ACTIONSׂ)...for you are our father...
Abraham we did not know...and Israel (Jacob)will not know us...
and pray for deliverance"

Complicated enough - But where is Isaac- the middle forefathers?

- his name does not appear!

So on one foot it seems to me to interpret:
that Yitzchak (ISAAC) was the true tzaddik from birth to the end
The others lived sometimes challenged lives among pretty wierd folks - even for those days
so maybe Yitzchak -Isaac- was wrong to bless Esau? who turned BAD?
My thought is:
we know there are blessings from the now, and there are blessings for generations passing
and then there are blessings for the future .
For approaching the time of redemption

We see Yitzchak in our parsha - as he tries
to give blessings to a wayward son- his blessings being for all these periods !
and he tries with all his mighty blessings to bring his son "back home"

So is it possible that he didn't see the real Esau?
He probably saw that every generation of Esau
could be coaxe a little towards

Repentance- and a return to good -
Despite influences in the wider world,
which you really can see in every generation - their blindness to the truth

May God have mercy on us all

and from Reb Shlomo Carlebach on Parshat Toldot

When Yitzchak was praying for children it says the most beautiful thing.
It says “Vaye’aser lo Hashem” (Bereishis 25:11).

the Ropshitzer Rebbe says, “Vaye’aser lo Hashem,” Yitzchak’s praying for children so strong that even God began praying that Yitzchak should have children!

Do you know how deep this is?...
It’s the deepest depths there is.
...
Do you see here what Yitzchak is showing us? Yitzchak brought down into the world that God’s answer to my prayer for children is not just that I’m asking for children and he says, “Okay, I’ll send some orders for the merchandise.”

It mamesh (truly) becomes God’s prayer.

It's funny but-
You can ask me for a glass of water, and suddenly I truly want you to have a glass of water in the strongest way.

When this happens I taste the depths of your soul, and then we are friends forever.

Good Shabbos!

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Portion pìctures from Rivka's Golan Heights and Mine

War war war

missile attacks and more

I just saw a picture of a soldier released from rehab with

2 prosthetic feet and one prosthetic hand

I started to cry

But we are in a war for survival - not those illegals at the southern border!

Not the gazans refusing a 5 million dollar reward for info (plus escape from Hamasland) leading to rescue of even 1 hostage!

Portion today is the

"Rescue of Rebecca from her conniving family!

From my friend Dr Moshe on this week's Portion

After the Akeida (binding of Isaac)

the Torah gives us one more bit of news:

And Besuel gave birth to Rivka.

Imagine, Abraham Avinu just passes the highest ( spititual) test SO that even Hashem is

testifying that he’s the greatest!

So why stay in touch with your pagan family?

(AE note - maybe it was for Thanksgiving?

)

So we see that Avraham didn’t distance himself from his previous contacts

and as a result we know about Rivka Imeinu (our great great GRANDMOTHER - Abraham'S Daughter in law - from somewhere between Iraq and THE GOLAN HEIGHTS)

and Mazal Tov you’re all invited to the wedding (of the Patriarchs ) this week!

(To pray that is, for happiness health and safety)

The peacock below was exercising where I exercise after droping off Leah at school nearby

The guy praying on his tank is in the Golan Heights!"

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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??Portion Noah – Apocalypse Then – Apocalypse Now

Is the flood story a parable (Noah gets drunk after not being able to deal with the destruction) or is it

A metaphor for every generation that sees perversion and corruption and does nothing

Or is it just an historical account (maybe with a little exaggeration– maybe not)

Or is it a warning to a world (as is written there) where peoples' hearts tend to the "dark side" and they need to always have their Garden of Eden portion opposite the Noah Flood?

So what’s a person to do?

We can't stop North Korea Russia Iran and the Hooties (2 drnes were shot down last night from "the East - mening Yemen) from blowing up things – or

can we?

My teacher Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook always taught that Torah Portions are Paired!

(Like the animals in the Ark? Like Adam and Eve?)

But ALL IS CONNECTED – and so Portion Noah ends with – against all the forces of Evil Iraq -

The birth of Abraham, his flight with Sarah to the Holy Land

(and soon to the Holy City of Hevron)

AND THE BEGINNING OF MONOTHEISM AND BELIEF IN A G-D FOR ALL PEOPLE

The Torah is saying that those teachings of Abraham and Sarah will ALWAYS BE RELEVANT

So tune in next week for the Saga of Sarah and Abraham

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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Portion of Noah

Sukot news- and celebrations

Listen to the short fun attachment recoded last night

Despite the war We All do the best we can on "sukot", also to

Support our troops -

But also keep up spirits!

Today Sunday a Druze officer died fighting for Israel - also the Druze Safe Home

when his tank hit a land mìne in Gaza.

The Taĺmud recalls

"The most joyous holiday spirit witnessed by masses - in

Holy Temple of Jerusalem -

Where sacrifices were offered for

PEACE TO THE WHOLE WORLD!

While we witness the jets and helicopters - like now -

Protecting us from missiles and drones sent to kill our families

EVEN IN Acco - a jewish city for thousands of years,

And Haifa right nearby.

But its all in the sukot haftoras - written by the prophets nearly

3000 years ago!

AND

Thanks Lyn n Mike for all the High Holiday organizing

Going to pray soon - especially foŕ all kinds of healings!

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Sukot

Joy of the holiday is not just escaping from the missiles (radio announced a few were shot up north just a bit ago)

But of seeing how the Almighty takes care of through it all -

During the holiday massive sukkahs are planned on the Gaza border - by families of fallen soldiers and some of the hostages)

It's end of summer Harvest time now in Israel and Rabbi Shlomo explained the holiday joy-

of reaching out to ALL the world to come visit our sukkah - actually the Holy Temple

george lynne and arlene do you remember the bbq at Azi's?

He Ìnvjted us to his new enlaged sukka ... always a treat

So I am reminded of Rabbi Shlomo's Sukkos stories of this holiday – so here is one (told in short).

There was a very rich man who disliked his poor neighbors' joyous loud singing for keeping him up every Sukkos night

Even when he asked them to keep it quiet – they could only keep it down for a few minutes!

So one year he paid off all the merchants in town not to let that family have any wood to build their sukkah

But what happens? The first night of Sukkos – there it is again !

Noisy joyous singing from next door after midnight!

So the rich angry guy runs out in his pyjamas and bangs on the neighbors' door

When they open the door he asks "where did you get wood to build a sukkah? I thought all the wood in town had been sold out long ago!"

The neighbor answered –"I went down to the cemetery and took what was there!"

The angry rich man said "what if the Angel of Death comes during the holiday and they need the wood for honoring the deceased?"

"Don't worry", answered the neighbor. "On the way over here I bumped into him, and the Angel of Death told me that the only dead soul in town this holiday is yours!"

So try to sing a little – Hallel songs? – or SING a lot this holiday!

WE MUST ALL CELEBRATE AND PRAY THE ABUSIVE CRAZIES STOP DESTROYING

THE HOPE OF RENEWAL

BY THIS SIMCHAT TORAH

and maybe RE START LEARNING ANCIENT WISDOMS as we re-start the Torah Reading from the beginning!

Happy Sukot Holidag

Chag Samayach blessings to all

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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Part 1:This Portion. Shabbat Yom Kippur

First

Let ùs all send to hèaven

Prayers for those suffering in the wake of the Florida hurricane

And

Prayrs for our people being attacked as I write this by another couple of hundred missiles

And

Prayers for a healthy year and for peace for all our people everywhere

And

an end to aggression by Iran and Russia -

and a hold - STOP -

on all those others like North Korea and China who are smiling at us while the world is in turmoil,

STOP THE ATTACKS - May the Almighty TEACH THE TORAH of wisdom and peace

TO THE WHOLE SUFFERING EARTH

My prayers are with you all - and with all of Israel,

And for a Better World.

NEXT - SELICHOT PRAYERS AND YOM KIPPUR PREPARATION

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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הוספת תגובה

New: Part 2: This Portion. Shabbat Yom Kippur - remembering Oregon

About 430 this morning I went to the Mikva near my home.

I didn't use he cold pool - just the warm one.

I remembered being Cantor - Hazzan - in Eugene Oregon one year - where

a few guys took me to the Wilammette River to dip - the ABSOLUTE COLDEST

I was eve rin.

Just remembering that made me think whether I needed to be in the Mikva today

Then my friend the local Rabbi showed up and said hello.

I once was short a few hundred dollars - and he loaned me the sum - a great guy.

Women Mikvas are supposed to be so no one sees you.

Guy Mikvas are a place - like the restored Roman Bathhouses I was in in Hungary

were always places of business tranactions and the latest news

So I dunked 7 times and got out, and sent Part One before my Talmud study

May we all try to come clean and pure and get close to the Almighty - and HOLINESS

This Erev Yom Kippur

Chag Samayach

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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Portion Nitzavim Part 2 -including:"

Darn Midnight murderers who shot at my area from Yemen"

IT IS ALL IN G-DS HANDS! EVERYTHING

EVEN those HoutiNazis shooting Iranian

Missile - via Egypt no less!

-intercepted over the water near Telaviv !

The portion says

"you are all standing before the Almighty ..."

So nothing is new besides weapons of mass destruction

And their assistant s the mass media.

so...

17 people were hurt running for shelters!

Sirens at midnight Freaked Out the kids!

AND

My Sunday flight to get in

For rosh hashono Which was already

Changed twice - requiring a day in London, with

The latest

may be cancelled too

But it doesn't say so on the website.

I am calling people since last night

To try to find a Rabbi A replacement in NY

For Rosh Hashono if need be

I. Might be able to fly to Europe on El Al -

but even they have bumped many travellers

My yom kippur flights are still workable I Hope

Because the name of the second half of this double portion is

Va yay Lech meaning - GOING

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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Portion Nitzavim

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